Originally posted on Facebook on Saturday, April 16, 2022.

I used to be offended by the resurrection.

The notion that a man died and came back to life was an insult to my sensibilities and was a major stumbling block to my accepting wholesale the claims of this man called Jesus.

I would not have believed had the Holy Spirit not intervened through the Spirit-filled preaching of the Word, the Spirit-filled ministry of believers and other various means.

My encounter with the Spirit prompted questions I had not sincerely considered before:

"Is this all there is? Could there be more? And, what if this man called Jesus is not just a man? What if He's more?"

I'm eternally thankful for His intervention because without the resurrection, the Christian faith is just another philosophy. But there is power –not just for some future mystical event, but power that is real and at work in my life today because Christ died and was raised.

Christ's dying as the perfect sacrifice satisfied the penalty of sin so I'm no longer condemned,
His being raised conquered death undoing for me sin's ultimate effect,
and His living established His kingdom where sin has no power and I'm given power over sin.

So, because of the resurrection, today I live free, with power to resist sin and I have this hope for tomorrow to attain to this resurrection, being eternally free from sin and death and to live: enjoying God without hindrance or limitation forever.

So, to those in Christ I say, "Happy Resurrection Day!" And, to those being saved I say, "Come. You are invited into the joy of our Lord!"

Again, "Happy Resurrection Day!"

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